Cast announced for the Menier Chocolate Factory revival of Ryan Craig’s The Holy Rosenbergs
Lindsay Posner directs Dan Fredenburgh (Saul), Nitai Levi (Jonny), Adrian Lukis (Sir Stephen), Dorothea Myer-Bennett (Ruth), Tracy-Ann Oberman (Lesley), Nicholas Woodeson (David) and Alex Zur (Simon). The production opens on 9 March, with previews from 27 February, and runs until 2 May.
The Rosenbergs of Edgware are in family in crisis. David is desperately trying to save a failing catering business; Lesley is trying to save a failing husband, and their daughter Ruth is facing public vilification for investigating war crimes in Gaza for the UN, is she failing her community? Will any of them succeed?
The Holy Rosenbergs originally premiered at the National Theatre in 2011, and is now even more timely and incredibly pertinent.
The Cast
Dan Fredenburgh plays Saul.
His theatre work includes Noises Off (Theatre Royal Bath and UK tour), Moonlight and Magnolias (Nottingham Playhouse), Pig Farm (St James Theatre), Bang, Bang, Bang (Royal Court Theatre), The Duchess of Malfi (Royal and Derngate), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Rose Theatre Kingston), Portrait of a Lady (Theatre Royal Bath and UK tour), A Few Good Men (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Children of Lesser God (Salisbury Playhouse), Sunday Father (Hampstead Theatre), Mnemonic (international tour), The Prince of Homburg (RSC, Lyric Theatre – Ian Charleson Award commendation), and An Inspector Calls (Garrick Theatre).
Nitai Levi plays Jonny.
His theatre work includes As You Like It (Theatre Royal Bath); Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 and The Band’s Visit (Donmar Warehouse), The Other Boleyn Girl (Chichester Festival Theatre), and Rent (Leicester Curve); and for television, We Were the Lucky Ones and Masters of the Air.
Adrian Lukis plays Sir Stephen.
His theatre work includes Being Mr Wickham (Jermyn Street Theatre), The Price, Pygmalion (Theatre Royal Bath), I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard (Finborough Theatre), The Seagull (Chichester Festival Theatre/National Theatre), Orson’s Shadow (Southwark Playhouse), Versailles (Donmar Warehouse), Bull (Sheffield Theatres), Sherlock Holmes – The Best Kept Secret (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Taming of the Shrew (RSC), As You Like It, Hay Fever (Rose Theatre), Arthur and George, The Winslow Boy (Birmingham Rep), Kafka’s Dick (Watford Palace Theatre), The Last South (Pleasance Theatre), Private Lives (UK tour), The Philadelphia Story, Cloaca (The Old Vic), Dinner (Wyndham’s Theatre), Dead Funny, The Front Page (Chichester Festival Theatre), and The Relapse, and Sleep With Me (National Theatre).
Dorothea Myer-Bennett plays Ruth.
Her theatre work includes What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Marylebone Theatre), Nachtland (Young Vic), Leopoldstadt (Wyndham’s Theatre), Twelfth Night, Shaw Shorts: Overruled and How He Lied to Her Husband, While the Sun Shines, The Lottery of Love, The Philanderer (Orange Tree Theatre), Possession (Arcola Theatre), The Arc (Soho Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory), Miss Julie, Creditors (Jermy Street Theatre), Rosenbaum’s Rescue (Park Theatre), Holy Sh!t (Kiln Theatre), The Winslow Boy (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare’s Globe and Lincoln Center), Pericles (Shakespeare’s Globe), Richard III, Uncle Vanya (West Yorkshire Playhouse), This Was a Man (Finborough Theatre), and As You Like It and Arcadia (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory).
Tracy-Ann Oberman plays Lesley
For theatre, her other work includes The Assembled Parties (Hampstead Theatre), The Merchant of Venice 1936 (West End, RSC and UK tour), Mother of Him (Park Theatre), Present Laughter, Fiddler on the Roof (Chichester Festival Theatre), Stepping Out (Vaudeville Theatre and UK tour), McQueen (Theatre Royal Haymarket and St James Theatre), God Child, Old Money, On the Rocks (Hampstead Theatre), Earthquakes in London (National Theatre and UK tour) and Boeing Boeing (Comedy Theatre).
Nicholas Woodeson plays David.
His extensive theatre work includes Oedipus (The Old Vic),The Price (The Gate), The Two Popes (Rose Theatre Kingston, and UK tour), The Tempest (Theatre Royal Bath), The Mirror and The Light (Gielgud Theatre), The Visit (National Theatre), The Pope, Death of a Salesman (Royal and Derngate), The Audience (Gielgud Theatre), Twelfth Night (Liverpool Everyman), Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre and Gielgud Theatre), The Homecoming (RSC), The Birthday Party (Lyric Hammersmith), An Inspector Calls (Wyndham’s Theatre), and Mary Stuart (Donmar Warehouse and Broadway).
Alex Zur plays Simon.
His theatre work includes The Merchant of Venice 1936 (West End, RSC and UK tour), The Great Gatsby (European tour), Fracture/My Cup Runneth Over (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), Hamlet (Southwark Playhouse), Macbeth (Young Shakespeare Company), A Level Playing Field (Riverside Studios, The Playground Theatre), and Edward II (Greenwich Theatre). For television his work includes Cucumber.
Also playing at the Menier Chocolate Factory
FALLEN ANGELS
Until 21 February
COWARD & FRIENDS
25 January
THE HOLY ROSENBERGS
27 February – 2 May
EQUUS
8 May – 27 June
(Then at Theatre Royal Bath: 13 – 25 July)
